A perspective on the vocabulary common to Classical and Vulgar Latin [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 This paper stems from two different perspectives—that of the Latinists, and that of the Romanists—upon the concept of ‘Vulgar Latin’, perspectives that have given rise to a friendly debate between Pierre Flobert and Eugeniu Coșeriu. We try to highlight a
George Bogdan Țâra
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Lexical typology through similarity semantics: Toward a semantic map of motion verbs [PDF]
, 2012 This paper discusses a multidimensional probabilistic semantic map of lexical motion verb stems based on data collected from parallel texts (viz. translations of the Gospel according to Mark) for 100 languages from all continents.
Cysouw, Michael, Wälchli, Bernhard
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‘Pitch accent’ and prosodic structure in Scottish Gaelic: Reassessing the role of contact [PDF]
, 2015 This paper considers the origin of ‘pitch accents’ in Scottish Gaelic with a view to evaluating the hypothesis that this feature was borrowed from North Germanic varieties spoken by Norse settlers in medieval Scotland. It is shown that the ‘pitch accent’
Pavel Iosad
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Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 Russian national academic conference for young scientist “Linguistic worldview problems in synchrony and diachrony” was held on April 15-16, 2014 on the basis of Russian Language and Culture of Speech department on the faculty of humanities in Minin ...
N. E. Petrova, E. N. Shirokova
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Vector spaces for historical linguistics : using distributional semantics to study syntactic productivity in diachrony [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes an application of dis- tributional semantics to the study of syn- tactic productivity in diachrony, i.e., the property of grammatical constructions to attract new lexical items over time.
Perek, Florent
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The influence of foreign patterns in the morphology section of Ioan Piuariu-Molnar’s grammar (Deutsch-Walachische Sprachlehre, Vienna, 1788) [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 One of the stages we have made in the process of publishing the German–Romanian grammar of Ioan Piuariu Molnar consisted in identifying the patterns followed by the author.
Ana-Maria Minuț, Ion Lihaciu
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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L’exclamation en anglais : point de vue diachronique
Corela, 2019 The analysis of exclamation from a diachronic point of view is the object of this study. The starting point is the definition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the main exclamative markers are studied in Old English and interpreted.
Sylvie HANCIL
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Bodily injuries and dative experiencers in Old Frisian [PDF]
, 2019 This article offers a descriptive account of body part constructions in Old East Frisian texts and analyzes the occurrence of dative experiencers in such clauses.
Bruno, Laura, Kerkhof, Peter Alexander
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The diachrony of morphosyntactic alignment [PDF]
Language and Linguistics Compass, 2018 Abstract With morphological and syntactic argument properties, some arguments behave alike (i.e., they align with each other) while others do not. Such alignment patterns have received significant attention in the literature, but claims as to their origin and development are sometimes difficult to assess, due to scant actual data ...
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